skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was organized by the wealthiest people in the country. If you believe this revolution was coming from the "grassroot", you are awfully mistaken.
I don't know what else to say except that you're wrong.
^ React is just the new jQuery. We have people who basically don't really know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript but make React apps day-in day-out. Ten years ago the exact same thing was happening with jQuery.

I still cringe when I see questions on StackOverflow where they ask "how can I XYZ with jQuery" where XYZ is something that has absolutely nothing to do with the DOM.
I don't think anybody has ever suffered negative regulatory action for doing a short squeeze. Even Martin Shkreli didn't get in trouble for his.
PDFs can be accessible, and many of them are! Everyone who works with PDF needs to know about PDF/A:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

PDF/A is a small family of sub-formats to PDFs which amount to the accessible subset of PDF + some requirements.

PDF/A and PDF/UA are mandated by a variety of governments for PDF distribution. They're very suitable to archival and are accessible (screenreaders can work with them, their text can be cleanly copied, etc).
I think it is complete crap that companies using legal platform protections can ban people by arbitrarily declaring speech they don't like as hate speech. There should be legal requirements that any companies which enjoy platform protections must prove in a court of law that speech can accurately be classified as hateful before banning anyone.
Aren’t these spaghetti just plots with transparency. Or am I missing something? Another nice way to illustrate density are fan charts. While spaghetti plots show individual time series, fan charts just show quantiles. Spaghetti plots therefore also reveal information of the conditional distribution of a time series which fan charts do not. The latter are just easier to read.
80% annualized is tiny on a daily basis - it's like 0.25%. They can afford to wait until next week when WSB has moved on to AMC and BB. Sustaining these high prices requires a continuous influx of new money; once the folks who believe GME is going to $1000 have already bought, what's left are the folks who believe it's worth $10.
And theae kinda of prices are why I'll probably never choose to live in the US. How do people live with the possibility that a freak accident could completely and permanently finacially ruin them.

The highest medical bill I've ever paid is £8.50. Of course I pay National Insurance to cover the costs of the healthcare system. But as far as I can tell that's no more expensive than what people in the US pay despite their insurance having not nearly the same coverage.
Chamath Palihapitiya says he wants to run to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom
> My PPO pays my GP about $75 for a regular visit.

Which is why they spend 5 minutes on you, 90 minutes after your scheduled appointment time.
Awesome project!

What is the stack, what kind of developers are you looking for?

Maybe post a link to your job listings.
$20 is about 10* the 52 wk low of the stock.
$30/hr is probably closer. Was just comparing with the big differential between LVN and MD on the pay scale.
Tamale King: ecommerce website from 1990s
I guess it was cheaper to buy reddit than cover the positions. :-D
IIRC, The American revolution was coordinated and funded by the existing colonial administrations, with aid from France. It was a secessionist movement backed by regional business interests in response to a reassertion of imperial sovereignty by a previously lax British government.

Something to be proud of, certainly. But not a grassroots thing, even if it did have some degree of popular support.
Owners of bank equity did not do fine in the global financial crisis
It can significantly slow down wild fires which need to heat a constant supply of fuel to ignition temperatures. Wood burns at 180 degrees Celsius, so the difference between 20c and -50c is +160C vs +230C or over 40% more heat.

This is especially impactful when looking at how easily sparks propagate fires across gaps.
Incredibly naive to think that WSB itself isn't filled with rich and well-connected people. In its early days, WSB was almost entirely a bunch of rich wall street traders with extra tens/hundreds of thousands to spare on crazy bets. Nowadays, it's one of the largest subreddits on one of the largest websites in the world. WSB isn't some niche gathering of "average joes" - all of the major wall street firms monitor it, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that many of them downright manipulate it via astroturfing.
App Review blocked my bug fix update, will call me in ~3-5 business days
Remember that whole "bug fixes will no longer be delayed over guideline violations except for those related to legal issues"?

Well, today App Review said my critical bug fix will be on hold while they "anticipate calling within 3 to 5 business days".

How is this ok? Has anyone else experienced the same?
Most of my GME units were purchased at ~$100. But I like the stock! So today I bought more at $330. I'm not worried that the aftermarket nominal price is just below that, because I think that's just fake short ladder figures on very low volume - I'm still HOLDING - when the short sellers are truly forced to buy back to cover their shorts the price will go to the moon. The real squeeze hasn't even begun yet.
There is nothing wrong with the word retard. It’s a legitimate dictionary word. Every few years the PC police has to arbitrarily decide that something is morally unfashionable and then they convince everyone that if they don’t replace it with an equivalent string, they’re somehow bad people. It makes no sense and everyone goes along with it. Whatever the current replacement is, that will probably be disallowed in a few years too. There’s nothing “not nice” about directing it toward one’s self as a joke. It’s not like they’re using it to bully a disabled person. People who can even afford the bandwidth to complain and choose that hill to die on have far too few problems in their life.
Discord claims it's not related to GME but rather because of the language that WallstreetBets community uses.

> Today, we decided to remove the server and its owner from Discord for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.

> To be clear, we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22253251/discord-bans-the...
I joined and had an extremely negative experience immediately, left, and reported it.

This was months ago. Imagine suddenly thousands of people are doing this and now Discord is being flooded with reports.

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Something some people might not know as well, there was another WSB Discord started by Jartek that used to be linked on the subreddit

That Discord was much more tame even with minimal moderation. No racial or homophobic slurs, but still allowing most if not all content people wanted to bring up short of porn...

Post scandal the subreddit changed back to this Discord, which was a mistake. It really was a vile server.

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Edit because now I'm rate limited over vindicating downvotes from people mourning that dumpster :)

Crazy how every direct reply to me has needed someone else to correct them. I guess my comment was coherent enough for people not foaming at the mouth to cry over some racist dumpster fire of a server...

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Again, there were two servers

One was linked in the subreddit, had minimal moderation, policed really hard slurs like ni*er, allowed shitposting all you wanted otherwise.

That one gained traction while WSBGod's saga was going on.

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The one I referenced which is the one deleted today, where mods were throwing n bombs for fun, was mostly regarded as an embarrassing weird place people might stumble upon from Google.

You couldn't even find it easily, someone had to invite you directly and some of them weirdly saw those invites as a favor (that's how I was invited there, someone liked one of my DDs in the main server and thought they were inviting me to sit with the cool kids... right.)

It wasn't tied to the subreddit and referred to itself as the "OG Discord" because it existed before the subreddit officially tied itself to a discord server.

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Jartek's "saga" took place, and because he had created the well regarded Discord server the link was replaced with one to the outright vile server.

Today the outright vile one was banned.

Good riddance.
I don't know if it's because of this, but as a European I was flabbergasted the first time I went to a pharmacy in US with a prescription and they told me "come back in an hour". Like what? In Europe you talk to the pharmacist, give the presciption and 5 minutes later you're out.
no, it uses distributed hashtables to find stuff.
Apple stores are by far the most profitable retail locations per square footage. Yet you don't see them selling Dell computers.

You aren't just buying a car with Tesla, you are buying an ecosystem that just works.

Legacy automakers had almost a century to create this network. And look at the current reputation and state of their dealership network.
That private thing will now make them under regulator scrutiny for "insider information".

Big Mistake.
It takes time to put a secondary stock offering together. Unless they already had it primed and ready to go the bubble will probably pop first.
"Don't be snarky."

"Eschew flamebait."

Please stick to the site guidelines, no matter how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. If we all work together we can avoid flamewar hell, which will keep HN interesting, which is in all of our interests.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe this but only because I don't know if it makes sense https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25926620
> America will always have adversaries. But enemies, who what to destroy the country? That's entirely our own creation.

There are innocent people who have done nothing wrong, and yet other folks want them wiped out of existence.

I'm sure we can all think of examples from history where this is true, both the recent and distance past.
I think my response would be to refuse to administer any shocks until I had a chance to experience them myself.
It was already happening at the broker level today.
It means the next time there’s some slight to a powerful government they are going to demand edits and there won’t be the defense of ‘this is how it works and we can’t control it’.

The only thing a blockchain represents is trust and by editing or changing the rules they demonstrate untrustworthiness.
>Instead we got locked-down privacy-breaching smartphones, IoT devices, SaaS, where only the manufacturer benefits from OSS.

You forget the user.
People saying "retard" isn't the real reason, they're just using it as an excuse. Powerful Wall Street types who gambled against them are losing money because of the hype train they've ignited and are crying to regulators. The discussion of coordination in the chat may be considered illegal and Discord doesn't want negative attention from regulators and the press.
I’m convinced that this is just a “win the battle, lose the war” moment. I can imagine well funded financial institutions doing whatever they can to make sure this doesn’t happen again and if they can, punishing those who took part.
Both are the case.
I’ve been playing with Meshtastic and some ESP32s recently. Works like a charm, but no security other than “channels” and currently no iOS app. The Python API has a ton of features, and it seems like this could tie in nicely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siberian_Times doesn't necessarily point the most flattering picture (at the moment, at least...)
This is that scene in all the casino movies where the person who found a system to win gets taken into the office by security and given a stern warning/beatdown.
So much this. I cut my teeth in commods which are still very much two way markets.

But the equity crowd hasn't seen any real volatility until March of last year and the Fed promptly stepped up to backstop the entire regime.

I have friends who own TQQQ like it's dumb not to...and they're right.
Python's actual behavior in this case is far stranger than static methods, which are a standard feature of many object-oriented languages (albeit one that's fairly redundant in a language that allows free functions).
I appreciate your open-minded approach. In terms of turning gears, I find that a surprising amount of the time, the evil people (greedy bankers, landlords, unions, execs, VCs police) are caricatures held by outsiders who don't see the full set of incentive structures driving their behavior.

Instead, from afar, they become cartoon bad-guys. When this happens, most people take the easy route and decide they are all "evil" rather than looking at the incentive structure of the system, and the behavior it encourages.

Next time you see one of these, see if you can instead see it as a bunch of people in roles mostly acting in their own self interest, and think on whether policy, institutional organization, or law could alter the incentives and change what is in their self-interest in a better way.
For pointers to other active and/or recent vertices of this story graph, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543.

As for this thread, it's got 500+ comments. If you want to see them all you'll need to click through the More links at the bottom, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935511&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935511&p=3
Do you have a few book recommendations? Maybe others can recommend similar books?
It also was not worth what the institutional firms had valued it at earlier last year at $2.

The short percentage of the float was 140% on 12/31. The institutional guys are not the rational ones here.
Its worth what people will pay for it. This time last year that was ~$4 per share. The company is looses money to firms like AMZ. And then WallStreet bets came in and pumped it up. It's been really fun to watch.
Show HN: Reddit Wallstreetbets Top Leaderboard
This is data from the last 24 hours until it went Private.
> WiFi supports peer to peer stuff just fine

Not to mention that there is huge mesh networks around the world deployed by private persons, all using WiFi over KMs of distance.
In 11 Hours of Pure Mania, 100% Stock Gains Popped Up Everywhere
And? The sub-reddit is still there. (and they're still holding)

This isn't the first time it went private though. But this and Discord and the media smears looks close to coordinated for different reasons. Huge media coverage and mass attention doesn't mix well for /r/wallstreetbets.

Also, as for those who have GME and see the stock tanking, great time to buy more until the run up to Friday's great squeeze.

EDIT: Aaaaaand the sub-reddit is back. Told you.
http://reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets
I believe that makes them the same as any other class defined with `__slots__`:

>>> class Foo:
... __slots__ = ('a', 'b')
...
>>> f = Foo()
>>> f.a = 1
>>> f.b = 2
>>> f.c = 3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Foo' object has no attribute 'c'
Acting alone it’s not inherently illegal. Real question is whether pooling your strength (ie assets) with others to force a squeeze is illegal collusion and market manipulation.
Market manipulation is not anything that "affects the market." That definition would cover pretty much any and all behavior. In this case Discord is not trading securities, is not telling any one else to trade securities, has nothing at all to do with securities.

If I run an email service and find that a user is running a pump-and-dump scam through it, do you really think I shouldn't be able to shut down their account?

(If you're interested in the actual law on market manipulation, it's here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78i)
selling a naked call requires quite a lot of margin, and akin to short selling stock - the downside is unlimited. Your option just doesn't go to zero, it starts at a negative value (what you got for selling a call) and can go to either zero and you get to keep that tiny premium or rip your face off when things like gamestop happen.

People have already forgotten Optionsellers.com it seems
"It is not a case of choosing those [faces] that, to the best of one's judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those that average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees." Keynes, 1936.
I guess you can agree with a meta-satire of your comment.
The 3% to 5% profit margin is for the whole company. For all the hate health insurers get as profiteering parasites, their owners sure aren’t pocketing much.

United health at 6%

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UNH/key-statistics/

Similarly, Anthem at 4.22%, CVS at 3%, Cigna at 3.38%, Humana at 5.58%, Molina at 4.57%, Centene at 2.12%.

The reason there’s so much M&A in this space is because there’s no margins, so it’s either go big and win in economies of scale, or go home and go out of business. And people face higher premiums because more people are getting more access to healthcare. There’s no lifetime benefit maximums or pre existing condition exclusions anymore. And the highest premiums are capped at 3x the lowest premiums.
I made another comment, people are really letting logic fail them in order to push a narrative.

The server was vile. Moderation used racial slurs casually.

Suddenly thousands of new people are flooding into the server from WSB on Reddit where the standard is obviously higher than that.

What do you think happens to report numbers? They skyrocket with user count!

Suddenly all eyes are on a truly vile corner of Discord of course they're going to ban them!
That is true for businesses with "reasonable" P/E multiples of ~5 or less.

When a business has a P/E multiple of >100+, a significant portion of the investment is speculative rather than a rational projection assets and future earnings.

It's really hard to make a rational value fundamentals argument for why anyone is willing to invest in TSLA, with its current price putting its P/E of 1700.
/r/wsb are not the prototypical Robinhooder who have followed on behind them.
yea, I missed the part where Lee's defeat at Gettysburg was instagrammed and Grant's victory at Vicksburg was on TikTok
The stock went 20 -> 300, surely whatever short positions there are were long ago margin called.
I'm incredibly naive to think something I didn't claim, allude to, or comment on at all? Rich and well-connected people can tick off other rich and well-connected people.
whoa talk about timing.
Shorts don't expire.
Because the woke left are fascists who are desperate to police people’s language.
That sounds similar to https://theuserisdrunk.com/

The guy behind the site will get drunk and then test out your website.
> Whats with all the javascript?

On blogs and news media site? mostly ad tech .

The irony is that it took AMP, a proprietary solution, for all these websites that mainly deal with text and image, to start cracking down on all that stuff.

Remember "mobile first"? Well the majority of web developers clearly do not have a Mobile first strategy, when you look at how heavy their webpages are.

Even the javascript could be lighter, but since everybody is using node.js and NPM behind the scene with a lot of complex modules, well code bundles become crazy big.
Yeah it didn't strike me as especially cheap either, and I have not used this practice myself, but as I understand it he does spend a lot more time with the patient discussing their questions and concerns than most docs do. He also pretty clearly markets to an upscale clientele, not people looking for bargain price medicine.
probably just an excuse and the real reason is that they want to stay out of trouble. (to state the obvious)
> Discord’s action is effectively market manipulation in a literal sense, because this is certainly going to affect the market.

It certainly will have an effect, but I'm not sure it meets the definition of "manipulation". I think (though am not certain) that the manipulating party would need to have a stake in the market asset for manipulation to apply. Many definitions (though not investor.gov) imply that personal gain is a requirement. No doubt there will be a legal case made here.
I'd like to do that one of these years, but not because it would save time. I'm almost certain it would take more time than it would free up.
Well, it is "Like 4chan found a Bloomberg terminal".
Wonder if they'll go to /biz/
Yes, certainly the author of that piece has a biased take. It is not just a hot-take however, and the main point is true; that the person who performs the draw must be in the employ of a CLIA approved lab that is accountable for their performance.

Since this doesn't seem to be their angle, that means they are contracting with labs, which means small scale regional providers, because generally LabCorp and Quest aren't interested in partnering with startups. Maybe they had a breakthrough here?

As an API service, their main customers would likely be the on-demand telemedicine startups (Nurx, DoD, Eden, many others.... However, they all are either narrow-service and national (Nurx, Roman; which have their own issues) or comprehensive and regional.

So that means they either can't operate legally (sketchy), have to do the work of cobbling together regional provider networks and clients that want those service areas covered (doable, but hard), or have scored a breakthrough with a big lab company or network that's a hidden advantage we don't see here.

Just interested in what they've found that can get them going in a tough space.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WallStreetBets
Now invite only.
Though people use Clojure for real work (just like PHP, Perl, Bash or Fortran), it has a narrow ideological focus which is radically different from the multi-paradigm nature of historic Lisps. It can be described as a domain-specific language for processing several kinds of immutable data structures as generic sequences, with Lisp-like syntax and meta-programming. You may learn something about Lisp from Clojure, but the big picture is missing; Clojure is "its own thing", mostly disconnected from the Lisp history, culture and practices. Clojure expertise will not transfer well to Lisp and vice versa.
I hope for Discord's sake that the "language that WallstreetBets community uses" that they take issue with isn't "calling each other autists as a form of endearment" because if that's the case there's going to be a really tough follow up question about a different group of people's language.
I'm assuming that it's someone who is unfamiliar with k8s or Ansible. You can quickly cobble together something solid from geerlingguy. It might need a day or two to hash up some basic yml - not long. Or... you could just ssh on your server and configure it manually, and cross your fingers - even quicker.

Even if you start with k8s and you want to scale, at some point you'll want to configure your images in a predictable way with something like Ansible. Whether you do that for the images you deploy, or your configure it in situ for a single-node, it's still the same complexity cost.
> You can’t kill someone because you think you are acting in self-defense. You have to actually be acting in self-defense.

That's not true at all. The bar is typically whether a reasonable person would believe that they are at risk of grave bodily harm. It obviously depends on the jury, but there have been a number of shootings where the shooter believed they were acting in self-defense, but were not, and they were ultimately acquitted.